Her judicial career came to an end after she was charged with lowering alimony payments for Carl Andrew Capasso in exchange for a position for her daughter at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, which was then headed by Capasso's lover Bess Myerson.
She left her father's law firm in 1944 to marry Dr. Milton Gabel, a United States Army dentist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.
[1] Gabel had her first association with housing in 1955, when she was appointed as general counsel to the Temporary State Rent Commission.
In May 1959 she was hired by the city to create a neighborhood conservation program and was given a second position in 1960 as an assistant to the mayor on slum clearance issues.
[1] In the 2019 film Motherless Brooklyn, a community activist played by Cherry Jones was primarily based on Gabel.